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Weekly Brain Dump #18

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At a Glance

Taylor Squasher

I’ve decided to pick this project back up and give it a serious attempt. I do believe there’s some huge value to be had here. Right now I’ve mostly just sat down and thought about what I want to tackle and how I want to tackle it.

I think I have some decent ideas that’ll let me implement require_relative too, but that’ll take a little experimenting before I’m confident.

Taylor Has a Community Site

You read that right, Taylor officially has a community site! I did the big announcement over on Taylor’s blog if you want the details, or you can just go check it out!

Finding inspiration and a bit of hope in CorgiSpace: Making many small games is such a great way to grow as a developer and have fun. I need to do more of this myself!

How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks: It turns out hardlinks have limits on EXT4 (among other filesystems).

ZFS helped to remove code: I love it when an off the shelf solution works well enough to replace a homebrew solution.

TruffleRuby 34 is Released: Full compatibility with Ruby 3.4!

Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes: The little language that could, I love seeing new Zig releases. It’s an incredibly interesting language.

Add DOS platform support (DJGPP): SDL3 now runs on DOS!

The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client: It’s great to see people actively developing simple tools for the Fediverse.


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